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Like any other group of the obsessed, Lewis-and-Clarkheads like to display their obscure knowledge by arguing over factoids, which creates a menu issue. There is a bitter disagreement over how much meat the explorers ate each day. One camp sticks to the commonly believed nine-pounds-a-day-per-person theory, while the other camp puts its estimates closer to three. Philosophically, the nine-pounders are vested in the fantasy that the explorers were dreamy, testosterone-packed macho men, while the three-pounders like to believe they were more like themselves. Leandra is firmly in the nine-pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have You Ever Tried Ashcakes? | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

Tonight, for the fourth straight weekend, visitors to the Loews Harvard Square movie theater will be greeted by about a dozen protesting projectionists as well as summer blockbusters, as a bitter dispute between Loews and its workers shows no signs of ending...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Locked-Out Projectionists Urge Boycott of Loews | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, both mother and daughter keep using that eerily temperamental elevator. Seems like the usual poor decision-making skills from horror film characters. But we soon learn that Yoshimi is trapped in her situation by a bitter custody dispute with her ex-husband; moving her daughter to a new school might look bad to the court. If they want to stay together, she and Ikuko have nowhere left to run, even when a demanding juvenile ghost starts making very physical appearances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japanese Water Torture | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

When President Bush makes public this week his plan for the creation of a Palestinian state, the exact shape his proposal takes will be crucial to more than just the future of the Middle East peace process. It will also reveal the outcome of another bitter struggle--the one between Secretary of State Colin Powell and Administration hard-liners, led by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Mideast War | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...except perhaps the hint that he may want to start looking for a realtor in some distant Arab capital), and little for the Palestinian in the street to hang on to. And for those moderate Arab regimes allied with the United States, the speech is likely to be a bitter disappointment. For the Egyptians, Saudis and Jordanians, the quid-pro-quo for ending the conflict had been an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders. What they got was an exhaustive set of political and security demands on the Palestinians in exchange simply for a return to the dead-end situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Bush's Mideast Plan Work? | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

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